Yarra Energy Foundation has secured funding to install three new community batteries in and around Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Australian energy infrastructure company Jemena has switched on two new 400kWh community batteries in Bellfield and Coburg in Victoria, Australia.

Dr Emi Gui of the Monash Energy Institute believes there’s a void in the market for an entity to drive Australia’s community batteries.

South Australian electricity distributor SA Power Networks is set to develop a portfolio of community batteries to help support distributed energy resources and electric vehicle (EV) charging capabilities.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has opened the second round of the Community Batteries Funding Program with AU$46.3 million (US$28.8 million) earmarked for successful applicants.

Community batteries are likely to become another tool in a decentralised energy grid, write Lachlan Hensey and Timothy Shue from Australia’s Yarra Energy Foundation.

Essential Energy, a state-owned electricity infrastructure company, has switched on three community batteries in the New South Wales towns of Maloneys Beach, Leeton and Goulburn in Australia.

Not-for-profit consultancy Yarra Energy Foundation (YEF) has said that its Fitzroy North community battery in Melbourne, Australia, generated AU$8,423 in revenue, excluding goods and services tax (GST), for the 2023-24 financial year.

A new 200kW/284kWh community battery energy storage system (BESS) has been switched on in Cammeray, a suburb of Sydney, the capital of New South Wales, Australia.

A community-owned battery energy storage system (BESS) in Australia could earn up to AU$250,000 per year, writes GridBeyond Australia’s solar, storage and EV regional director Stace Tzamtzidis.